"And yet
By this one can prove — Marx bites sardonically — the pre-established* harmony of critical criticism and censorship, present the censor not as a police executioner (Polizeischerge), but as my own personified feeling of tact and measure.
Fluttering about with its 'Geist', absolute criticism does not investigate whether there is phraseology, self-deception, vacuity (Kernlosigkeit) in its airy (windigen) pretensions.
"Precisely the same situation obtains with
"All communist and socialist writers began from the observation that, on the one hand, even the most favorably arranged brilliant deeds apparently remain without brilliant results and degenerate into triviality; on the other hand, that every
* — pre-established. Ed.
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beginning corresponded in practice to the movement of the broad masses, to the detriment of which historical development had hitherto proceeded. One must be acquainted with the inclination toward science, with the thirst for knowledge, with moral energy and the tireless striving for self-development among French and English workers in order to form an idea of
"The relationship of 'spirit and masses' has, however, yet another,
And Marx points out that Hegel's Geschichtsauffassung* presupposes an abstract and absolute spirit, the bearer of which is the masses. Parallel with Hegel's doctrine there developed in France the teaching
Hegel is "guilty of a twofold half-measures" (127) [94]: 1) by declaring philosophy to be the Being of absolute spirit, he does not thereby declare this spirit to be the philosophical individual;

* — understanding of history. Ed.
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